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Revert "net: core: maybe return -EEXIST in __dev_alloc_name"
authorJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Sat, 2 Dec 2017 07:41:55 +0000 (08:41 +0100)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Tue, 5 Dec 2017 16:29:48 +0000 (11:29 -0500)
commit18cf94e5c678d394b31a314df6bb85a18e08fa48
treefcb14271eeeb7bb11d58f0a5bcf2222227554b1btree | snapshot
parent42a6f65aaba695c2eed587ff14ae526e616620dacommit | diff
Revert "net: core: maybe return -EEXIST in __dev_alloc_name"

This reverts commit bed0559c1cc3; some userspace (in the case
we noticed it's wpa_supplicant), is relying on the current
error code to determine that a fixed name interface already
exists.

Reported-by: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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